Published Papers

Published Papers

Selected Sample of Scientific Publications  (out of a total of 120 + publications)

Middleton, W. & Raphael, B. (1987).  Bereavement:  State of the Art and State of the Science. Psychiatric Clinics of North America, Vol 10, No 3, 329-343.

Raphael, B. & Middleton, W. (1988).  After the Horror, British Medical Journal, Vol 296, 23 April, 1142-1144.

Raphael, B. & Middleton, W. (1990). What is pathological Grief? Psychiatric Annals, 20:6, 304-307.

Middleton, W. & Raphael, B. (1991).  Terminal Illness.  In: Handbook of Studies on General Hospital Psychiatry.  Elsevier Science Publishers B.V. (Biomedical Division) 26; 379-390.

Middleton, W. & Raphael, B. (1992).  Bereavement:  In: Handbook of Affective Disorders: Second Edition, Ed. by Paykel, E.S., Churchill Livingstone, 619-633.

Middleton, W., Moylan, A., Raphael, B., Burnett, P. & Martinek, N. (1993). An international perspective on bereavement related concepts. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 27:457-463.

Middleton, W. (1996).  Dichotomies, polarisations and dissociative processes, Psychotherapy In Australia, 1:43-47.

Middleton, W., Raphael B., Martinek, N. & Misso, V. (1993).  Pathological Grief Reactions: In: Bereavement: A Source book of Research & Intervention, Ed. by Stroebe, M.S., Stroebe, W. & Hansson, R. New York, Cambridge University Press, 44-61.

 

Burnett, P., Middleton, W., Raphael, B., Dunne, M., Moylan, A. & Martinek, N. (1994). Concepts of normal bereavement. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 7:123-128.

Middleton, W., Burnett, P., Raphael, B. & Martinek, N. (1996). The bereavement response: a cluster analysis.  British Journal of Psychiatry, 169: 167-171.

Burnett, P., Middleton, W., Raphael, B. & Martinek, N. (1997). Measuring core bereavement phenomena. Psychological Medicine, 27: 49-57.

Middleton, W., Raphael, B., Burnett, P. & Martinek, N. (1997). Correlates of the bereavement response. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 185: 447-453.

Middleton, W., Raphael, B., Burnett, P. & Martinek, N. (1998). A longitudinal study comparing bereavement phenomena in recently bereaved spouses, adult children and parents.  Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 32: 235-241.

Middleton, W. (1998). Different losses: different grief.  Grief Matters: The Australian Journal of Grief & Bereavement 1:3-6.

Middleton, W. & Butler, J. (1998).  Dissociative identity disorder: an Australian series. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 32: 794-804.

Dorahy, M.J. & Middleton, W. (2002).  Dissociative identity disorder and the complicated clinical presentation. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 18, 35-41.

Middleton, W. (2003). The ‘in house’ solution for major ethical breaches. Australasian Psychiatry, 11: 265-266.

Dorahy, M.J., Middleton, W. & Irwin, H.J. (2004).  Assessing markers of working memory function in dissociative identity disorder using neutral stimuli: a comparison with clinical and general population samples, Aust and N Z J of Psychiatry, 38:1/2,47-55.

Middleton, W. (2004).  Anna O and Hanna Q. Australasian Psychiatry, 12:3, 239-244.

Middleton, W. (2005). Owning the past: claiming the present – perspectives on the treatment of dissociative patients. Australasian Psychiatry, 13: 1, 40-49.

Middleton, W., De Marni Cromer, L. & Freyd, J.J. (2005). Remembering the past; anticipating the future. Australasian Psychiatry, 13:3, 223-233.

Dorahy, M.J., Middleton, W. & Irwin, H. (2005). The effect of emotional context on cognitive inhibition and attentional processing in dissociative identity disorder. Journal, Behaviour Research and Therapy, 43 (5): 555-68.

Middleton, W. & Lammersma, J. (2006). The RANZCP Australian Private Practitioner’s Network. Australasian Psychiatry 14:1, 15-19.

Middleton, W.  (2007). Gunfire, humour and psychotherapy. Australasian Psychiatry, 15:2, 148-155.

Farmer, J., Middleton, W. & Devereux J. (2008). Dissociative Identity Disorder and criminal responsibility.  In: Sachs, A & Galton, G. (Eds). Forensic Aspects of Dissociative Identity Disorder, London: Karnac, 79-99.

Middleton, W., Dorahy, M. & Moskowitz, A. (2008). The concepts of dissociation and psychosis: An historical perspective. In: Moskowitz, A., Schäfer, I. & Dorahy, M. (Eds).  Dissociation and Psychosis: Multiple Perspectives on a Complex Relationship. London: Wiley, 9-20.

Quinn, M., Schofield, M. & Middleton, W. (2008). Conceptualisation and treatment of psychogenic nonepileptic seizures.  Journal of Trauma and Dissociation, 9:1, 63-84.

Dorahy, M.J., Shannon, C., Seager, L., Corr, M., Stewart, K., Hanna, D., Mulholland, C. & Middleton, W. (2009). Auditory hallucinations in dissociative identity disorder and schizophrenia with and without a childhood trauma history: Similarities and differences. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 197:(12): 892-898.

Dorahy, M., van der Hart, O. & Middleton, W.  (2010). The history of early trauma and abuse from the 1850’s to the current time: How the past influences the present. In: Lanius, R., Vermetten, E. & Pain, C.V. (Eds), The Hidden Epidemic: the Impact of Early Life Trauma on Health and Disease. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 3-12.

International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation. (2011). [Chu, J.A., Dell, P.F., Van der Hart, O., Cardeña, E., Barach, P.M., Somer, E., Loewenstein, R.J., Brand, B., Golston, J.C., Courtois, C.A., Bowman, E.S., Classen, C., Dorahy, M., Şar, V., Gelinas, D.J., Fine, C.G., Paulsen, S., Kluft, R.P., Dalenberg, C.J., Jacobson-Levy, M., Nijenhuis, E.R.S., Boon, S., Chefetz, R.A., Middleton, W., Ross, C.A., Howell, E., Goodwin, G., Coons, P.M., Frankel, A.S., Steele, K., Gold, S.N., Gast, U., Young, L.M., & Twombly, J.]. Guidelines for treating dissociative identity disorder in adults, 3rdrevision:Summary version.Journal of Trauma & Dissociation, 12:2: 188-212.

Middleton, W. (2012) Boundaries and Boundary Violations. In: Figley, C. (Ed). Encyclopedia of Trauma. Sage: USA, 55-58.

Middleton, W. (2012) Trauma and selfhood. In: Figley, C. (Ed). Encyclopedia of Trauma. Sage: USA, 693-696.

Middleton, W. (2012). Foreword. Bryant N. The Franklin Scandal (Second Edition) Trineday: Walterville OR, v-vi.

Middleton, W. (2012). Foreword. Best Practice Guidelines for Complex Trauma (trauma – specific) and Trauma – Informed Care and Practice, Compiled and Published by Adults Surviving Child Abuse (ASCA). Publicly released November 2012, x-xiii.

 

Middleton, W. (2013). Parent-child incest that extends into adulthood: A survey of international press reports 2007-2011. Journal of Trauma and Dissociation, 14: 184-197.

Sar, V., Middleton, W. & Dorahy, M.J. (2013). Introduction, Special issue of Journal of Trauma and Dissociation, Individual and Societal Oppression: Global Perspectives on Dissociative Disorders, 14: 121-126.

Middleton, W. (2013). Ongoing incestuous abuse during adulthood. Journal of Trauma and Dissociation, 14; 251-272.

Middleton, W., Dorahy, M. & Moskowitz, A. (2013). The concepts of dissociation and psychosis: An historical perspective. In: Moskowitz, A., Schäefer, J. & Dorahy, M. (Eds). Dissociation and Psychosis: Multiple Perspectives on a Complex Relationship- Revised 2ndEdition. London: Wiley, 9-20.

Sar, V., Middleton, W. & Dorahy, M. (2013). Introduction. In: Sar, V. Middleton, W. & Dorahy, M. (Eds). Global Perspectives on Dissociative Disorders: Individual and Societal Oppression. London: Routledge (Taylor and Francis), 1-17.

Middleton, W. (2014). Parent-child incest that extends into adulthood: a survey of international press reports, 2007-2012. In: Sar, V. Middleton, W. & Dorahy, M. (Eds). Global Perspectives on Dissociative Disorders: Individual and Societal Oppression. London: Routledge (Taylor and Francis), 45-64.

Middleton, W. (2014). Ongoing incestuous abuse during adulthood. In: Sar, V. Middleton, W. & Dorahy, M. (Eds). Global Perspectives on Dissociative Disorders: Individual and Societal Oppression. London: Routledge (Taylor and Francis), 65-86.

Dorahy, M.J., Brand, B., Sar, V., Kruger, C., Stavropoulos, P., Martinez, A., Lewis-Fernandez, L., Middleton, W. (2014). Dissociative Identity disorder: An empirical overview. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 48:5, 402-417.

Middleton, W., Stavropoulos, P., Dorahy, M.J., Kruger, C., Lewis-Fernandez, L., Martinez, A., Sar, V. & Brand, B. (2014). The Australian Royal Commission on institutional responses to child sexual abuse. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 48:1, 17-21.

Middleton, W., Stavropoulos, P., Dorahy, M.J., Kruger, C., Lewis-Fernandez, L., Martinez, A., Sar, V. & Brand, B. (2014). Institutional abuse and societal silence: An emerging global problem. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 48:1, 22-25.

Middleton, W. (2014) Nicht endender Inzest: die Fritzl-Analogie. Trauma: Zeitschrift für Psychotraumatologie und ihre Anwendungen, 12(4), 34-42. (Unending incest: The Fritzl analogue. Invited paper for journal special issue, ZPA, edited by Vogt, R.)

Middleton, W. (2015) Tipping points and the accommodation of the abuser: The case of ongoing incestuous abuse during adulthood. Invited paper for journal special issue, International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy,(edited by Salter, M.) 4(2):4‐17. doi: 10.5204/ijcjsd.v3i2.210

Dorahy, M., Middleton, W., Seager, L., McGurrin, P., Williams, M. & Chambers, R. (2015) Dissociation, shame, complex PTSD, child maltreatment and intimate relationship self-concept in dissociative disorder, chronic PTSD and mixed psychiatric groups. Journal of Affective Disorders, 172, 195-203.

Middleton, W. (2016) Wilhelm Fliess, Robert Fliess, Ernest Jones, Sandor Ferenczi and Sigmund Freud – ISSTD President’s Editorial, Journal of Trauma and Dissociation. 17:1, 1-12.

Brand, B.L., Sar, V., Stavropoulos, P., Kruger, C., Korzekwa, M., Tabaos-Martinez, A. & Middleton, W. (2016) Separating fact from fiction: An empirical examination of common myths about dissociative identity disorder. Harvard Review of Psychiatry, July/August – 24:4,257-270.

Middleton, W., Dorahy, M.J. & Salter, M. (2017) Reporting revives bad memories of contentious issues. Opinion piece, The Weekend Australian 14-15thOctober, p. 22.

Middleton, W. (2017). Extreme adaptations in extreme and chronic circumstances; The application of ‘weaponized sex’ to those exposed to ongoing incestuous abuse, Special (double) Issue, Journal of Trauma and Dissociation, 18:3, 284-303.

Middleton, W., Dorahy, M.J. & Salter, M. (2017) Reporting revives bad memories of contentious issues. Opinion piece, The Weekend Australian 14-15thOctober, p. 22.

Middleton, W. (2017). International Spotlight: ISSTD spotlight on Australia, (A history of the dissociative disorders field on Australia) ISSTD News, November.  http://news.isst-d.org/isstd-spotlight-on-australia

Dorahy, M.J., Gorgas, J, Seager, L. & Middleton, W, (2017) Engendered Responses to, and Interventions for, Shame in Dissociative Disorders: A Survey and Experimental Investigation. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 205(11): 886-892.

 

Kate, M-A. & Middleton, W. (2018).  Dissociative disorders and somatic symptom-related disorders. Abnormal Psychology (Kring, A.M., Johnson, S.L., Kyrios, M., Fassnacht, D., Lambos, A., Mihaljic, T., Teesson, M., Matthewson, M., Morton, E., Kate, M-J. Harris, A., Izadikhah, Z., Piovesana, A., Crowley-Cyr, L. Baille, A., Mewton, L., Johnson, L. & Middleton, W.), Chapter 5 – First Australian Edition, 279-318.

Middleton, W. (2018). ISSTD Media (Written) Award Goes to Ground-Breaking Enquiry into Child Abuse. ISSTD News, April  (http://news.isst-d.org/isstd-media-written-award-goes-to-ground-breaking-enquiry-into-child-abuse).

Middleton, W. & Kluft, R.P. (2018) An interview with Richard Kluft, MD. ISSTD News, July. http://news.isst-d.org/an-interview-with-richard-kluft-md

Middleton, W. (2018) Robert Fliess, Wilhelm Fliess, Ernest Jones, Sandor Ferenczi and Sigmund Freud – ISSTD President’s Editorial, “The Abused and the Abuser: Victim – Perpetrator Dynamics.” This edited book was published by Routledge (Taylor and Francis) on 18th April 2018, 234-250.

Middleton, W. (2018 – In Press) Trauma-informed care and incest that continues into adult life. In: Benjamin, R., Haliburn, J. & King, S. (Eds), “Humanising Mental Health Care in Australia – Introducing a Trauma-informed Approach”.

Marsh, R., Dorahy, M.J., Verschuere, B., Huntjens, R.J.C., Middleton, W. & Butler, C. (2018 – In Press) Transfer of Episodic Self-Referential Memory across Amnesic Identities in Dissociative Identity Disorder using the Autobiographical Implicit Association Test. Journal of Abnormal Psychology.

 

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